The Sweet Taste of Success with Pink Spoon Marketing

July 26, 2010

Sound like a post about some type of baby give-a-way contest?  Guess again.  Pink Spoon Marketing is the latest in Internet Marketing.  It’s a new approach to business whereby you build the “know/like/trust” factor to create a thriving business. The term “pink spoon” was created by Andrea Lee and was inspired by the popular ice [...]

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The SEO Benefits of WordPress

July 22, 2010

In a previous post, I talked about the benefits of using WordPress for your website.  While I discussed look, programming, easy of use, etc., another important element is the SEO benefits. WordPress makes adding SEO-friendly elements easy. Title.  During the installation process, you’re typically asked for this information.  However, it can be changed after the [...]

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Mint.com – The best free way to manage your money!

July 14, 2010

I was recently chatting with some local Virtual Assistant buddies and I mentioned my new favorite website after one asked if I knew of a financial software that had a budget feature.  I instantly had their interest when I started to tell them about Mint.com and the uber cool features it offered…  and for FREE!  [...]

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Social Branding: Taking your Brand to Twitter and Facebook

July 12, 2010

Uniqueness is now vital to the success of your brand.  With the sheer volume of people online, you have to make sure that when you’re marketing your product or service using social media that it is recognizable.  A brand is much more than just the product itself, or the visuals you create to promote it. [...]

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How a Weekly Ezine Can Grow Your Business

July 8, 2010

In the “old” world of advertising (and it’s really not that old, per se), data shows that someone had to see something 3-5 times before they would make a purchase.  In the online world, that number is estimated to be 5-7 times (if not higher).  If you know anything about NASCAR racing, manufacturers pay millions [...]

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Benefits of Using WordPress for your Website

June 28, 2010

If you’ve been around the block on the Internet for a while with a web site, then you probably can remember not too long ago the battles you faced with creating a web site, making sure it viewed Ok in each browser, and other fiddly things. While I could write on and on for days [...]

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Carbonite Backup versus Mozy

June 22, 2010

You’ve seen the commercials on TV.  Mozy has the bizarre ads where a stove on fire drops from the sky and lands on a man’s laptop.  Carbonite’s ads are nothing to write home about, offering folks talking about their situation. Both applications give you the same thing: the ability to backup your content in the [...]

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Nested Labels in Gmail

May 24, 2010

When I switched from Entourage to Gmail and had to give up my SubFolders, I was quite heartbroken. I found a work around and would create my subfolders so they looked this way: “Alicia Rittenhouse – Monthly Subscriptions” “Alicia Rittenhouse” was the main folder and “Monthly Subscriptions” was the subfolder. It worked but now Google [...]

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